ulna

Plaque-clogged arteries in the abdomen suggest a red-meat eater; black-encrusted lungs signify long-term nicotine addiction; the faint indentation in the ulna is the scarred evidence of an arm broken in childhood.

Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

For four or five days I thought over the history of his injury and the resulting inability to rotate the radius around the ulna -- in other words, to turn his hand over.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

At the elbow, which is the first angle of the wing, reaching backward when the wing is folded, the humerus articulates in a wisely designed way with two other bones, called the ulna and radius, which together constitute the forearm and extend to the wrist joint.

Our Bird Comrades 1896

(The ulna is the bone that reaches the wrist on the pinkie side.)

Scientific American 2009

The medial and lateral heads originate on the upper-arm bone and attach on the ulna, which is one of the forearm bones.

xml's Blinklist.com 2008

In the Negro, the 'ulna', the longest bone of the fore-arm, is nearly of the same length as the 'os humeri', the latter being from one to two inches longer.

The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844

"The fracture of the ulna is a simple one," said the spokesman, "and will become all right in the ordinary course of nature.

The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective Louis Tracy 1895

A left humerus of which the upper-third is wanting, and which is so much slenderer than the right as apparently to belong to a distinct individual; a left 'ulna', which, though complete, is pathologically deformed, the coronoid process being so much enlarged by bony growth, that flexure of the elbow beyond a right angle must have been impossible; the anterior fossa of the humerus for the reception of the coronoid process being also filled up with a similar bony growth.

On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

A left humerus of which the upper-third is wanting, and which is so much slenderer than the right as apparently to belong to a distinct individual; a left 'ulna', which, though complete, is pathologically deformed, the coronoid process being so much enlarged by bony growth, that flexure of the elbow beyond a right angle must have been impossible; the anterior fossa of the humerus for the reception of the coronoid process being also filled up with a similar bony growth.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Moving his right arm above water Alex let out a terrified shriek, his ulna and radius were protruding through his skin, and his arm was dangling as he desperatly tried to keep from drowning.

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